5/16/2009 | Posted in , ,

Amos 4:1-2 - Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that [are] in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

Ezekiel 38:2-4 - Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts [of armour, even] a great company [with] bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:

Both Gog, and the kine of Bashan are led by God with hooks. Where is Bashan?

Bashan is a biblical place first mentioned in Genesis 14:5, where it is said that Chedorlaomer and his confederates "smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth," where Og the king of Bashan had his residence.

Argob, in Bashan, was one of Solomon's commissariat districts (1 Kings 4:13) also known as Trachonitis and Lejah. (in modern day Syria)

Trachonitis means “the rugged region”. It is an island of rock which was approximately 20 miles by 30 miles, and rose 20 or 30 feet above the table-land of Bashan.

Ashteroth translates literally to 'Ashteroth of the Horns'. Ashteroth was the goddess of the Philistines (known as Ishtar in Babylon, Inanna in Sumeria, and Venus in Greece)

Daniel 7:21 - I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

Deuteronomy 3:11 - For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead [was] a bedstead of iron; [is] it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits [was] the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

Rephaim – to be cast down, or thrown down. An ancient race of giants.

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